319: Upslope’s Alex Meyer Thrives in the High Pressure World of Craft Lager Brewing
Boulder’s Upslope has been brewing Craft Lager since long before lager brewing was “cool,” and today the small brewery has built a production methodology for the longtime core offering that optimizes ...
4 Syys 20231h 5min
318: Ex Novo’s Dave Chichura Reflects on the Dynamic Decades of a Brewing Career in Motion
Dave Chichura loves brewing, and loves to work. He's always lived simply, and maintained a lifestyle that allows him to move around. And move he has, from breweries in the Midwest as well as up and do...
28 Elo 20231h 21min
317: Averie Swanson of Keeping Together is Envisioning Our Saison Future
If Averie Swanson had her way, saison would outsell IPA among craft beer aficionados. The longtime saison brewer hopes to move beyond stereotypes and romanticized history and show (through beautifully...
18 Elo 20231h 28min
316: Mark Hastings of Überbrew and By All Means Continues to Elevate Black IPA and American Wheat
Montana is known for its grain, and Mark Hastings of Überbrew and By All Means is in the thick of it. Wheat is the most-grown crop statewide while barley is third; despite their ubiquity, Hastings ste...
11 Elo 20231h 24min
315: Jess & Rich Fierro of Atrevida Put Their Values Into Action as They Overcome Trauma and Make Beer for Everyone
This week’s podcast is different from most. A couple weeks ago, I drove down to Colorado Springs to catch up with Jess and Rich Fierro of Atrevida Beer. Jess was the winner of Season One of the Vice T...
7 Elo 20231h 43min
314: Pinthouse, Cloudburst, and Single Hill Join For a Fresh Hop Brewing Roundtable
The Northern hemisphere hop harvest is just weeks away, and that means one of our favorite times of the year—fresh hop beer season. To help add to the excitement, we invited three experts in the field...
30 Heinä 20231h 32min
313: Kevin Templin of Templin Family Brewing is Shaving the Edges of Award-Winning Lagers and IPAs
Utah’s beer laws are some of the most anomalous in the country—the state does everything it can to make life hard on brewers—but one byproduct of the laws restricting the sale of beers based on ABV is...
24 Heinä 20231h 19min
312: Pure Project’s Winslow Sawyer Brews With Style, Not to Style
When Winslow Sawyer and his partners launched San Diego’s Pure Project in the middle of the last decade, they weren’t focused on brewing particular styles. Instead, they began with the tenet of buildi...
16 Heinä 20231h 9min
